SAGp-1.37.sea.hqx
pari-1.37.mac.README
pari-1.37.sources.mac.sea.hqx

                                   Pari
                      (downloaded from math.ucla.edu)

From the author's descripton:
The PARI system is a package which is capable of doing formal 
computations on recursive types at high speed; it is primarily 
aimed at number theorists, but can be used by people whose 
primary need is speed.

Although quite an amount of symbolic manipulation is possible in 
PARI, this system does very badly compared to much more sophisticated 
systems like Reduce, Macsyma, Maple, Mathematica or Scratchpad 
(now Axiom) on such manipulations (e.g. multivariate polynomials, 
formal integration, etc\dots). On the other hand, the two main 
advantages of the system is its speed (which can be between 5 and 
100 times better on many computations than the above mentioned 
systems), and the possibility of using directly data types which 
are familiar to mathematicians.

It is possible to use PARI in two different ways:

   1) as a library, which can be called from any upper-level language 
      application (for instance written in C, C++, Pascal or Fortran);

    2) as a sophisticated programmable calculator, named GP, which 
       contains most of the standard control instructions of a 
       standard language like C.


The file SAGp-1.37.sea.hqx is a binhexed version of a selfextracting 
Compact Pro archive containing a stand-alone version of the Gp 
program named SAGp. It is compiled for a Macintosh with at least a 
68020 processor and requires a two megabytes partition. The same 
file contains also the manual in TeX format.

It is possible to compile smaller versions of Pari, or versions 
running on a 68000, or MPW Tools versions. You need for this to get 
the other file Pari-1.37.sources.sea.hqx which contains all the 
sources and Makefiles needed to build them under MPW. It is probably 
possible also to build with THINK C but this will require you to 
recompile all standard libraries with the 'ints are 32 bits' option 
enabled. 

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